What is SUMMARIZING?

Definition Of  Summarizing

 

Summarizing is the process of drawing conclusions or summaries of a text by simply quoting the important points. Summarizing (summary) must be short, complete, and objective by reading the parts carefully in order to produce a good summary.

 Summarizing is the ability to produce a concise form of language from existing information. In this summarizing, there are not only important elements, but also maintain the order of the original information

 

A summary begins with an introductory sentence that states the text's title, author and main point of the text as you see it. A summary is written in your own words. A summary contains only the ideas of the original text.

A good summary condenses (shortens) the original text.
While it should be long enough to include the most important information, a rule of thumb for a summary is that it should be one- fourth to one-third as long as the original text if that text is 1–3 pages.

 

2.2  Purpose of summarizing

A summary is meant to inform your reader—who has not read the text or seen the presentation—of what the text is about. It describes its purpose or main idea, and summarizes the supporting arguments that develop that idea.

The purpose of summarizing is to help students learn the technique of extracting the most important ideas from a text. They also learn to ignore irrelevant information present in the text, and students with these skills are able to integrate central ideas in a meaningful way from any theory or conceptual writing. Students who learn how to summarize, improve their memory skills, and become more skilled in the process. Summarizing strategies are adopted in almost every field of study or industry.

2.3  Characteristic of a Summarizing

The following are some summary characteristics, consisting of:

1. Reveal an essay or reading text in a solid form. In summarizing we take the essence          or main ideas of a reading so that it becomes a more compact form.

2. Reproducing what the author expressed in his writings. We take the essence which is         then rewritten in our own language what is expressed by the author.

3. Maintain the order of the main ideas so that a summary of the original text is built. In       summarizing we must continue to follow the main ideas so that the summary we                    make still represents the original reading text.

4. The summary, point of view, and content follow the original manuscript. Even if we          rewrite it, we must not get out of the composition of the original manuscript.

5. Write short sentences that represent the author's writing. In principle, summarizing            means making writing shorter. Therefore, the sentences in the summary are short and           concise but do not remove the aesthetic elements of the original manuscript.

         2.4  Steps for make a  good summarizing

Some of the guidelines used to make a good and correct summary include:

 

1.      Read the Original Script

The first step that must be taken is that a summary writer must read the original manuscript once or twice, it can even be repeated several times until the overall general impression of the contents of the manuscript is known. The author also needs to know the author's intent and the author's point of view. In order to help the writer achieve it all, the title and table of contents can be used as references in the essay.

 

2. Noting the Main Idea

If the writer already knows the general impression, the original intention and the author's point of view, then now he must deepen and confirm all of these things. The next thing to do is to re-understand the essay part by part, paragraph by paragraph while noting the important ideas implied in the passage or paragraph.

 

The purpose of the recording is twofold, the first for the purpose of observation in order to facilitate the writer at the time of re-examining whether the points recorded are important or not; second, the record becomes the basis for further processing. Most importantly, the purpose of this note is so that without the binding of the original text the author begins to rewrite to compile a summary using the points that have been noted.

 

3. Reproduction

By using the general impression in the first step above and the notes obtained from the second step above, a writer is ready to start making the intended summary. In the summary the order of contents is adjusted to the order of the original manuscript and must use the language of the author of the essay and must be sorted

 

2.5. Examples of Summarizing

 

Original Text :

 

“..There are two ways to become wealthy,to creat wealthy pr to take wealth away from other .the former adds to society .The letter typically substracts  frrom it,from in the process of taking it away wealth get destroyed . A monopholist who overcharges for his productcs takes away money from those whom he is over charging and at the same time destroys value .to get his monopoly price ,he has to restrict  production “.Stiglitz ,J.E .(2013) The price of inequality . London : Penguin

 

Summary Text :

Stiglitz (2013) suggest that  creating  wealth adds value to society ,but that taking away the wealth of other destracts from it .He uses the example of a monopolist who overcharges for his product resulting in loss of wealth for the customer ,but also loss of value as the monopolist  has to retrict production in order to charge the higher price.